Large Chinese Porcelain Bat & Colored Cloud Charger 洪福齐天大盘

Large overglaze-enamel dish with “Hundred Bats” design. The dish has a broad, open and well-expanded form, with the curvature of the walls transitioning naturally, and a slightly recessed center on the base. The glaze is warm, milky white, with a soft and gentle luster. The base bears a six-character Da Qing Guangxu Nian Zhi mark in three vertical lines of iron-red regular script. 百蝠纹釉上彩大盘，盘体开张舒展，盘壁弧度自然过渡，底心微凹。釉色温润乳白，光泽柔和。大清光绪年制（矾红三行六字楷书款）。

Period 時代: Qing Dynasty • Guangxu 清 • 光绪
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Date 年代
Dimensions 尺寸: Diameter 13 3/8 inches X height 2 1/4 inches 直径34厘米，高5.7厘米
Materials 材質工藝

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A famille-rose 'Hundred Bats' charger, Mark and period of Guangxu Diameter 13⅜ in., 34 cm
A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ‘HUNDRED BATS’ DISH The interior is decorated overall with a lively multitude of iron-red bats in flight amidst scattered trefoil clouds in green, blue, purple and pale yellow, all within a narrow gilt and iron-red band below the rim. The exterior is similarly decorated. 13½ in. (34.3 cm.) diam., box, wood stand